|
HMS ''Montagu'' was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy. In May 1906 in thick fog, she was wrecked on Lundy Island, fortunately without loss of life. Although she would soon have been obsolescent if she had not been wrecked, this loss of one of its newest battleships was a blow to the Royal Navy, then in the early stages of the naval arms race with Germany.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=30 July 2009 )〕 ==Technical description== HMS ''Montagu'' was laid down at Devonport Dockyard on 23 November 1899, and launched on 5 March 1901, when she was christened by Lady Charles Scott, wife of Lord Charles Scott, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. She began trials in February 1903. ''Montagu'' and her five sisters of the ''Duncan'' class were ordered in response to large French and Russian building programmes,〔 including an emphasis on fast battleships in the Russian programmes;〔Gibbons, p. 159〕 ''Montagu'' and her sisters were designed as smaller, more lightly armoured, and faster versions of the preceding .〔 As it turned out, the Russian ships were not as heavily armed as initially feared, and the ''Montagu'' and the other ''Duncan''s proved to be quite superior in their balance of speed, firepower, and protection.〔 ''Montagu'' had an armour layout similar to that of the preceding ''London'' subclass of the ''Formidable'' class, with reduced thickness in the barbettes and belt.〔 ''Montagu'' and her sisters had machinery of more than the ''Formidable''s and ''London''s and were the first British battleships with 4-cylinder triple-expansion engines. They also had a modified hull form to improve speed. The ''Duncan''s had a reputation as good steamers, with a designed speed of and an operational speed of ,〔 good steering at all speeds, and an easy roll. They were the fastest battleships in the Royal Navy when completed, and the fastest pre-dreadnoughts ever built other than the and .〔Burt, p. 202〕 ''Montagu'' and her sister ships had the same armament as and a smaller displacement than the ''Formidable''s and ''London''s.〔 As a pre-dreadnought, ''Montagu'' would have been outclassed by the dreadnought battleships that began to appear at the end of 1906, but she was lost that year, several months before 's commissioning ushered in the new battleship era. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Montagu (1901)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|